The Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines are as effective at preventing symptomatic illness in people with underlying medical conditions as in the...Weekly Roundup
No fully-vaccinated person under 50 has died from the Delta variant, even though younger age groups make up 90% of cases, a report from Public Health England has shown,...Coronavirus
A single shot of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID jab reduces the chance of needing hospital treatment by more than 80%, an analysis in England...
March 3rd, 2021Professor Shabir Madhi, eminent Medical Research Council vaccinologist and principal investigator in the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine trial locally, has urged the Health...
February 24th, 2021Israeli, Canadian and UK studies showing a single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is 85% effective is not changing the two-dose policy of the US Food and Drug...
The new SARS-CoV-2 variant is growing rapidly, is more transmissible than other variants, and affecting a greater proportion of under 20s. The new variant has a...Medico-Legal
A UK High Court will hear a legal challenge over the “shocking death toll” from UK coronavirus in care homes, rejecting the arguments for dismissal from the...
November 4th, 2020It's known that there are a variety and interplay of risk factors that determine vulnerability to and morality risk of the coronavirus, writes MedicalBrief. Scientists...
Public Health England has urged the populace to get vaccinated against flu in the light of its research that suggests the risk of death more than doubled for people...Coronavirus
Coronavirus was not the main cause of death for nearly one third of recorded COVID-19 victims in July and August, The Daily Telegraph reports that the research by Oxford...
